How does one judge a glass of wine? There are a few tests, how it looks, smells and taste are the basic three. But as the wine is poured you may or may not know that your wine is made up of different varieties of grapes. A producer sits down and experiments...

IBM Program Director for Worldwide DB2 Sales George Baklarz joins me to discuss the technology highlights of DB2 10 , including:
How DB2 acts as a greate tool to handle Big Data for analytics purposes. The Time Travel Query feature that lets you add a...

Continuing this week's discussion on IBM announcements, today I'll cover our integrated systems.
The problem with spreading out these announcements across several days' worth of blog posts is that others beat you to the punch. Fellow blogger Richard Swain...

In response to: LTFS – Linear Tape File System Keith, good info on LTFS, I am always asking people how we help customers with deciding between LTFS and something like HSM via TSM. Also I didn't know LTFS is FREE. thats pretty darn cheap!

IBM had over a dozen storage-related announcements this week. This is my third and final part in my series to provide a quick overview of the announcements.
IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager v6.3 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is market-leading software that provides...

A common problem is running out of disk space for your archive logs - what can you do? If you are using archiving of your MQ logs, you can quickly get a lot of archive log data set. If you are not careful you can run out of space because the storage pool...